Running back Nick Chubb has dealt with serious injuries over the past two seasons with the Cleveland Browns before accepting a one-year, $2.5M deal that can be worth up to $5M from the Houston Texans this spring.
While speaking with reporters on Wednesday, Chubb provided a promising update regarding his health.
“That’s all behind me. Injuries happen,” Chubb insisted, NFL.com’s Kevin Patra shared. “With what I did, it takes about two years to really get back. So, I’m over the hump. Now, I’m feeling as good as I have been in a long time.”
Chubb was referencing how he suffered
a gruesome torn ACL, torn MCL, torn meniscus and torn medial capsule in September 2023. That setback kept him out of action until Oct. 20 of last year, and he largely looked like a shell of his former great self up until he went down with a broken foot in December.
Across eight games with the 2024 Browns, Chubb averaged a career-low 3.3 yards per carry. However, the 29-year-old suggested on Wednesday that he believes he can reclaim the form that made him a four-time Pro Bowl selection with Cleveland this coming fall.
“Probably while I was at home during my offseason training,” Chubb said when asked about when he began feeling like he did before the devastating knee injury. “I hit all my numbers that I usually do in the offseason, so speed and weights and things like that.”
On Tuesday, Cleveland pass-rusher Myles Garrett confirmed he spoke with Browns general manager Andrew Berry earlier in the offseason about possibly re-signing Chubb. Berry instead selected running back Quinshon Judkins in the second round of the 2025 NFL Draft before the Browns took ball-carrier Dylan Sampson in the fourth round.
Those transactions resulted in Chubb leaving a Browns team that finished this past season with a record of 3-14 for a Texans side that claimed the division title over each of the past two campaigns.
“[I know] the opportunity that I had here with this team, being the up-and-coming team, and the past two years have really turned it on,” Chubb added about joining the Texans during his comments. “So I knew I had a chance to come here, win a lot of games, surrounded by a great group of people.”
In the end, Chubb is essentially a lottery-ticket signing for a club that has Joe Mixon as its RB1. If Chubb truly is feeling as good as he has “in a long time,” Houston grabbing him so late into springtime workouts could prove to be one of the better acquisitions of the offseason.